While former F1 driver Giedo van der Garde insisted that “sabotage” is out of the question at Red Bull, he pondered whether the off-track saga at Red Bull influenced the rare mechanical failure that cost Max Verstappen in Melbourne.
Red Bull started the F1 2024 season in typically dominant
fashion with one-two finishes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, but could not fully
revel in that glory as a flurry of questions around clashes behind the scenes
continued to come the way of team boss Christian Horner, senior advisor Helmut
Marko and star driver Verstappen.
Did off-track saga aftermath trigger Red Bull lapse?
The situation cooled somewhat heading into Round 3, the
Australian Grand Prix, where Verstappen arrived searching for a
record-equalling 10th grands prix victory in a row, but those ambitions soon
faded.
